{
  "slug": "cloudflare-queues-cron-triggers",
  "name": "Cloudflare Queues + Cron Triggers",
  "url": "https://developers.cloudflare.com/queues/",
  "cat": "auto",
  "group": "ship",
  "tagline": "Edge queues plus scheduled Workers",
  "price": "Workers Free: 100,000 requests/day, 10,000 queue operations/day, Cron Triggers included. Workers Paid $5/mo: 10M requests and 1M queue operations included, then $0.30 per million requests and $0.40 per million operations.",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Cron Triggers run a Worker on a schedule; Queues provides producer and consumer message passing with batching, retries, configurable delays and dead-letter queues. Consumers get up to 15 minutes of CPU time per invocation. Cloudflare Workflows layers multi-step durable execution on top.",
  "why": "If your app already runs on Workers this is the cheapest background stack available: $5/mo covers a million queue operations and unlimited cron schedules, with no cold starts and no separate vendor.",
  "warn": "An operation is counted per 64KB written, read <b>or</b> deleted, so one message typically costs three operations. Workers still cap wall-clock and memory, so heavy or long compute belongs somewhere else.",
  "install": "npx wrangler queues create my-queue",
  "category": {
    "key": "auto",
    "name": "Automation & background jobs",
    "desc": "Visual no-code and code-first job runners — different problems, listed together.",
    "group": "ship",
    "groupName": "Ship it & keep it alive"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": null,
    "checked_at": "2026-08-19T00:58:08.071+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}